This kinda worries me, what if i when i buy some bitcoins i end up depositing money on the bank account that belongs to some major criminal that the police is spying on to gather evidence to arrest (or see who the criminal is associated with) ?

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I imagine it would be like working at a store and accepting cash from a drug dealer to buy some milk. Just because the cash was ill gotten doesn't mean you are doing anything wrong. I guess, hope the law enforcement is sane enough to realize that.

This kinda worries me, what if i when i buy some bitcoins i end up depositing money on the bank account that belongs to some major criminal that the police is spying on to gather evidence to arrest (or see who the criminal is associated with) ?

If major criminals were using Bitcoins already the exchange rate would probably be higher.

My guess is porn. Imagine the user- "Yes dear, I need to buy these Bitcoins to play this online game. It's pretty fun". Beats having all these odd payments on credit cards!

Well, yeah. There's porn. In fact one (at least) of the forum members runs three or four sites that take Bitcoin.

But the success of this currency is not going to depend on websites that take 1 or 2 or 5 Bitcoin at a time. It will depend on reliable transactions *beginning* at five figures, and going into six or seven.

And *that* is where a new Bitcoin client will have to focus: on 'splitting' Bitcoins into their intended - but never implemented - eight decimal places.

With only 21 million of them, I suspect we'll need the added functionality pretty soon now.

But the success of this currency is not going to depend on websites that take 1 or 2 or 5 Bitcoin at a time. It will depend on reliable transactions *beginning* at five figures, and going into six or seven.

And *that* is where a new Bitcoin client will have to focus: on 'splitting' Bitcoins into their intended - but never implemented - eight decimal places.

With only 21 million of them, I suspect we'll need the added functionality pretty soon now.

I see on the charts they're over a US Dollar...

It's really easy to implement, it's all there just not in the standard GUI. It'll happen soon I'm sure.

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This kinda worries me, what if i when i buy some bitcoins i end up depositing money on the bank account that belongs to some major criminal that the police is spying on to gather evidence to arrest (or see who the criminal is associated with) ?

Maybe the thing to worry about is that the cops won't have a freaking clue about coins and will just see you ship a grand to whomever they are watching and assume you are buying whatever illicit thing the criminal is in to.

That kind of incompetence is an argument against police not bitcoin.

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Maybe the thing to worry about is that the cops won't have a freaking clue about coins and will just see you ship a grand to whomever they are watching and assume you are buying whatever illicit thing the criminal is in to.

That kind of incompetence is an argument against police not bitcoin.

Law enforcement has historically (okay, in the early-to-mid 90s anyway) been quite behind technological developments, especially when it comes to disruptive technology. I imagine there will be quite a few snafus between law enforcement and the Bitcoin Community before law enforcement finally learns how to get along with bitcoins.

Maybe the thing to worry about is that the cops won't have a freaking clue about coins and will just see you ship a grand to whomever they are watching and assume you are buying whatever illicit thing the criminal is in to.

That kind of incompetence is an argument against police not bitcoin.

Law enforcement has historically (okay, in the early-to-mid 90s anyway) been quite behind technological developments, especially when it comes to disruptive technology. I imagine there will be quite a few snafus between law enforcement and the Bitcoin Community before law enforcement finally learns how to get along with bitcoins.

If a bitcoin is worth $100 a few bitcoiners will be able to afford high class lawyers.